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Need For Speed World is a free online version of the popular racing game franchise. It's a massively multiplayer open world game (MMO), so you will be able to join in with many other players from around the globe, with RPG style leveling up and improved cars to unlock. You can add new friends to enter contests or compete against each other.

A huge open world to explore

To start playing Need For Speed World, you need a user account. Once you have it, simply create a driver profile and choose your first car from an initial small, and not very exciting, selection. Just like any other role playing game, you’ll have to start completing races to get experience points. As you start leveling up, you’ll find better cars to buy.

Players can move freely in Need For Speed World. If you take a break, you can explore this huge world and study new courses or pursuits, but you can also join the integrated chat module to add friends. The entire time, youre only a mouse click away from entering online and offline races. These can be multi or single player, and you can even get into police chases.

The game is free, but not the extras.

Need For Speed World is free, but you'll have to pay for any extras. The game has an integrated game shop where you can, for example, purchase car insurance to protect your vehicle, rent a more powerful car for a specific race, or buy power-ups for the one you already have.

An intuitive game

Need For Speed World is quite intuitive, but the arcade-style handling also means that it's not especially accurate or realistic. You can take turns at full speed or gentle drift, and you can boost your car to push stubborn opponents around. Although there won't be any visible damage on the car, you'll need a pit stop from time to time.

Nice graphics without bumps and bruises

Graphically, there’s nothing bad about Need For Speed World. The cars are shiny and always show their best side: damage will never show up, so you won’t see any dents, scratches or torn fenders. Sound effects and music are similar to those you find on any game in the Need for Speed franchise.

In brief: solid online racing with a few flaws

Need For Speed World hasn't reinvented the genre of racing games, but it's definitely entered a new territory in racing MMOG. The gameplay is solid and its arcade style means that it's easy to start playing, perfect for less experienced players.

On a negative note, other players in free mode are only shown as ghosts, and you can drive through them. There is very little player interaction and the MMO community feeling is hardly noticeable, but in spite of these small glitches, if you're a racing game enthusiast, you should definitely dive into the Need For Speed World universe.

Review last updated: 26/02/14

Pros

Stable, easy to get playing

Big racing world

Entertaining multiplayer races

Cons

Players in free mode are shown as ghosts

Customization is limited to cosmetic changes

"Decent, but really needs Improvements"

5.0

5.0

usability7

Stability4

Installation10

Functionality6

Appearance9

Need for Speed: World is a good game which was developed by Quicklime Games (former Black Box studios) which was the original studio which made the classical Need for Speed games such as Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Carbon.

So Need for Speed: World is a good game but it's far away from perfect. One main issue in this game are the high rate of Cheaters which is still being dealt with. Also the game doesn't really seem newbie-friendly anymore. New Level 1-10 players will have to race against more skilled Level 60 players which can be hard for a newbie to beat.

Also the balance between in-game Cash items and SpeedBoost (NFSWs Microcurrency option) isn't good either. Most of the good cars/items in-game can only be obtained via SpeedBoost which means you have to spend real money on it. However, there are nice items for In-game Cash as well. But not in a same way as SpeedBoost items.